Alibaba says that if Alipay did not succeed in getting a Chinese license without foreign ownership, Alipay may have been rendered illegal, and that could have undermined the company's fast-growing electronic commerce unit, Taobao.com, which relies heavily on online payments.
But even California's bold funding plan won't help American research if stem cell research is stigmatized, and there's a possibility that one technique --somatic cell nuclear transfer--will be rendered illegal by congress within a few weeks.
Those stunts were rendered illegal, as were a host of other consumer-unfriendly practices, while minimal benefits such as pregnancy coverage were mandated. .
If the AP wins their case, every Obama art (or any other politician) that was based on a photo reference that was not licensed would be rendered illegal.
Both cases fall under the umbrella of overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal and everyone becomes a lawbreaker.
It is the mutual aspect of these encounters that is rendered shocking, illegal, and repulsive.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when a business that can create quick and large personal rewards for unscrupulous behavior -- behavior which can be rendered more effective and more illegal by technological means -- remains virtually unregulated.
In contrast, all undocumented non-citizens were rendered ineligible for Medicaid by the 1996 "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act".
